Links
Here’s a categorised list of some recommended links
Finding Freelancers- If you don't have the skills in house to amend your website, I have had great success getting freelance help from these sites.
- oDesk
A site for finding freelancers to help you if you're not a copywriter, developer or a graphic designer. - elance
A site for finding freelancers to help you if you're not a copywriter, developer or a graphic designer. - Rentacoder.com
Rent a coder helps people who need custom software developed find coders to do the programming for them.
- Tweetspinner - Twitter app
Great tool for managing your twitter account - Tweetdeck - Twitter app
Great twitter tool - and free! - Jack Humphrey's BlogSuccess
Jack Humphrey is a well respected commentator on generating income from your blog. This is his membership site. - Jack Humphrey's Authority Black Book
A great resource for increasing your online credibility through blogging.
Usability Sites
- Usabilla
Get feedback on any wireframe, mockup or webpage from other web users. - Concept Feedback
Receive quick, actionable feedback from a professional community - ClickTale
See what your visitors click on and pay the most attention to. - Clixpy
Clixpy tracks everything your site’s users do: mouse movement, clicks, scrolling, form inputs. You can watch and examine videos showing your users’ actions. - Feedback Army
Start a usability test for your site in two minutes. Submit questions about your site and receive 10 responses from our reviewers. The cost is $10. - Five Second Test
Five Second Test is a free usability testing service. The site shows and then hides a screenshot of your page and asks users to recall elements that they remember. - User testing
Low Cost Usability TestingThe fastest way to watch and hear real people using your website. - Click Heat
ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. ClickHeat is an OpenSource software, released under GPL licence, and free of charge. - Simple Mouse Tracking
Simple Mouse Tracking is another free tool to track a visitor’s mouse movements and clicks on your site. - Silverback (for Mac)
Silverback makes it easy, quick and cheap for everyone to perform guerrilla usability tests with no setup and no expense, using hardware already in your Mac. - Crazy Egg
Create tests to figure out what people are doing on your website. - Ethnio
Ethnio is a usability-testing recruiting tool that enables usability researchers to find recruits for testing directly from your website. - Feng-GUI
Find out how people see your website, photo or ad and which areas are getting most of the attention withinthe first 5 seconds
Webmaster Resources
- Justhost Web Hosting
Justhost do my hosting. I've had good service from them - and no down time - Dreamtemplate
Excellent templates for websites, Joomla and Wordpress themes and printed brochures. - Backlink checker
Find backlinks linking to a website and their URL information. - Index checker
This tool searches though search engines to determine how many pages from a specific website is present on a search engines index. - Keyword density checker
This tool is useful for helping webmasters achieve optimum keyword distribution - Broken link checker
Use this tool to check for Broken Links on a website. (Broken links are links that lead nowhere). - Spider view
A tool which enables you to view a website from the the perspective of a search engine spider.
